Beware the Ides of July: Trump assas­si­na­tion attempt, Biden ends reelec­tion cam­paign in wild month

It’s cus­tom­ary for me to write a piece this month titled “Beware the Ides of August.” It’s a take on Shake­speare, where Julius Cae­sar is warned “Beware the Ides of March.” The mid­dle of March is what spells doom for Cae­sar. And over the years, I have found that the month of August – often the mid­way point – to be the most dra­mat­ic, his­toric and often volatile peri­od in pol­i­tics and government.Richard Nixon resigned the pres­i­den­cy in August 1974. The U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshi­ma and Nagasa­ki in August 1945. Mar­tin Luther King Jr., gave his “I Have a Dream” speech …